> > You can get some diagnostics on what's happening with startx as follows: > > $ startx >X.out 2>X.err > > Any console output generated by startx will go to X.out and any error > messages will go to X.err. If it still hangs you can reboot and look in > those files for any clues as to what's going wrong. > > Paul. Thanks, but how will I find those files afterwards? I'm not too hot on command line - I can navigate but don't know how to search for a file... can you help with that? Duncan (I'm not going to try Knoppix with 64kb RAM!)